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THE antics of a Phuket property developer who was stopped from illegally filling in an old tin mine lake, only to continue the process in the evenings and weekends when local officials weren’t working, are appalling. It’s enough to make you fling your arms in the air and ask despairingly ‘what’s the point?’ The rich and powerful will get their way and the rest of us can go to pot.